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AXEL R. GUSTAFSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IRONING-MACHIN E.

Application filed June 3, 1913. Serial No. 771,409.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AXEL R. GUs'rAFsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to improvements in ironing machines and is deslgned to improve the construction and operatlon of the hand and table type of iron1ng machines.

The primary object of the invention is to simplify the construction and facilitate the operation of hand operated machines so that the movement of the machine may be accomplished without undue exertion of the operator, and also time as well as labor may be saved.

The invention consists essentially in the combination and arrangement of parts by which the machine of the above characteristics is produced, as will appear more fully hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention constructed and operated according to the best mode I have so far devised for the practical application of the rinciples of the invention.

WVhile I shall fiereinafter refer to the machine as hand operated, it will be noted that the machine is equipped with means by which power may be utilized to drive the machine, if desired or required.

In the accompanying drawings in which similar reference characters indicate like parts throughout the figures: Figure 1 1s a side elevation complete of a machlne built in accordance with my present invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the machine of Fig. 1, partly broken away for convenience of illustration. Fig. 3 is a detail elevation at one end of the machine (as in Fig. 1) with the balance wheel or drive wheel omitted. Fig. 4: is a top plan view of the parts of the machine illustrated in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view on line 5-5 of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a detail elevation, partly broken away and part in section of the stationary shoe or iron forming part of the machine. Fig. 7 is a sectional view on line 77 of Fig. 6.

In the preferred embodiment of my 1n- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 19, 1914.

vention as depicted in the accompanying drawings a table machine is illustrated equipped with the present invention, the table being indicated by the numeral 1. The machine is supported upon the table at a proper and convenient height, and is provided with side plates or frame members 2, 2, preferably of metal and connected by the brace rods or bolts 3, 8, to give rigidity to the machine support, and the frame members are securely fastened to the table top, as shown in dotted lines Fig. 1. Each of the side plates is fashioned with an integral shelf or bracket 4;, 4, upon which the stationary shoe or iron 5 is bolted, the latter being formed with a flanged foot 6 by which the iron is bolted to the brackets.

The customary gas heater 7 is located in the lower portion of the hollow iron 5 and the heater or burner is controlled by the valve 8 as usual which regulates passage of gas through the pipe 9. The iron is thus stationary and fixed to the supporting frame of the machine. The padded roll 10, however may be moved toward or away from the iron as desired. This roll is fixed upon the shaft 11, and the shaft is journaled at each end, in a carriage 12. Each carriage is equipped with a pair of wheels 13 that are adapted to travel on the horizontal flange 14 of the side plates 2, and a guard plate 15 is also attached to each carriage to guide the carriage and guard against displacement thereof. In Fig. 3 it will be noted that the rear end of the carriage is formed with an inclined or beveled edge which terminates in a notch or recess 17 This construction is present on both carriages, as is also the screw bar 18 and its spring 19, the screw bar being threaded into a flange 21 of the frame plate, and each screw bar extends loosely through a perforation in a flange 20 of a carriage. A coiled spring 19 surrounds the bar, is guided thereby, and is located between the flange 21 and the carriage. The springs 19 urge the carriages and through them the padded roll toward the hollow heated iron, so that the articles may be ironed as they pass between the roll and iron.

The padded roll may be revolved from the Wheel 22 which has a handle 23 and is fixed on shaft 24 journaled in one of the side plates. The shaft 24 carries a pinion 25 which meshes with a gear 26 fixed on the shaft 11. Thus by rotating the wheel 22 the padded roll is revolved, either by hand power applied at the handle 23, or a belt or rope from a motor may be passed over the groove 27 of the wheel 22 to revolve the roll.

The padded roll may be shifted from proximity with the iron by means of the levers 28, 28, which are pivoted in the frame at 29, 29 and provided with anti-friction wheels 30 normally in contact with the beveled or inclined edge 16 of each carriage. The levers 28 28 are connected by cross braces or rods 31 to move in unison, so that when the operator swings the levers backward (toward the left in Fig. 1) the carriages and padded roll are moved forward, the carriages traveling by means of their wheels over the flanged head let of the side frames. The carriages are moved against the tension of the springs 20, so that when pressure is released from the levers, the springs will return the carriages and roll to place. By pulling the levers forward to their extremes, the wheel 30 travelin down the incline 16 shoves the carriage and eventually seats itself in the notch or recess 17, and when in this position, the carriages may be held out of operative position relatively to the iron. To release the carriages the levers are pushed to the left in Fig. 1, and the springs return the carriages to proper position.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combination in an ironing machine with a stationary hollow heated iron and a supporting frame, of a padded roll, a horizontal, flanged nead on the frame at each ,end of the roll, a wheeled carriage adapted to travel on each flanged head and said carriages supporting the roll, screw-threaded bars threaded into the frame and loosely engaging the carriages, springs surrounding the bars and located between the frame and the carriages to force the roll toward the iron, and means for moving the carriages against the tension of the springs.

2. In an ironing machine, the combination with wheeled carriages supporting a padded roll, a supporting frame having horizontal tracks for said carriages, springs between said frame and carriages, each carriage formed with an inclined edge terminating in a recess, and pivoted levers having rollers normally in contact with said'inclined edges, and said rollers adapted to fit and engage in the recesses of the inclined edges to hold the carriages out of operative position.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AXEL R. GUSTAFSON.

\Vitnesses PETER GUNDERSEN,

CHARLES RIEGER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

